KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Biden’s Rabid Trump Reversal Fever Is Bad for America. “It’s no secret that the Democrats were broken by their hatred for Trump. It’s a real sickness though if they need to pretend that peace in a historically war-torn region isn’t a good thing. Objectively, the Abraham Accords are something to be celebrated. Being so consumed by partisan bile that they can’t acknowledge them is not a good look for Biden or the Democrats.”

IF OR WHEN? What Happens If The Coronavirus Wuhan Lab Leak Thesis Is True?

The Biden administration would then be under excruciating pressure to adopt an extremely hardline policy toward Beijing. Despite expectations that President Biden would seek to restore a much more cooperative and conciliatory China policy after the tensions in bilateral relations that characterized the Trump years, his actual approach has been akin to “Trump lite.” On issue after issue, from Taiwan, to the South China Sea, to trade, the Biden administration’s posture toward Beijing has been surprisingly firm. Perceptions that covid began in a Chinese virology lab, though, would compel the White House to adopt even stronger, more confrontational, measures. And that process could intensify bilateral tensions to an extremely dangerous level.

Biden’s allies in Congress and the mainstream media likely would find themselves under ferocious attack as well. The earlier attempt to stifle debate and exonerate the PRC government from any responsibility for the onset or spread of covid would be in danger of backfiring spectacularly. Critics might even question whether that campaign was merely an error born of rabid, unthinking hostility toward any position the Trump administration embraced, or whether more nefarious motives—including financial ties to the Chinese government—played a role. The potential for outright neo-McCarthyism on this issue is considerable.

So if it is proven that Communist China set a pandemic loose on the world, by either accident or design, the real danger is that Republicans might pounce?

THE ROAD TO TALLAHASSEE: Trump Sees a Potential New Running Mate in 2024…

MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: Worldcon Ordered to Apologize and Pay Conservative Author Jon Del Arroz for Banning Him and Calling Him ‘Racist’.

STACEY LENNOX: Trump Was Right: The Biden Administration Is Intent on Destroying the Suburbs.

THAT ’70S SHOW: Biden Defense Budget Gives China Upper Hand, Republican Hawks Say. “Budget proposal could force Navy to cut 11 battle-ready boats.”

EAT MOR LEFTEES: Architect of Chick-fil-A Ban Loses San Antonio City Council Seat.

FEATURE NOT A BUG: Have BLM Activists Realized Yet That Defunding the Police Is Racist?

CRISIS BY DESIGN: 10,864 Venezuelans Cross Border Into U.S. in One Sector Alone, Up From 135.

VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: How Many Really Died from COVID? California County Reduces Toll by 25%.

Plus:

• Steely Dan was prophetic
• CNN’s Brian Stelter asks Jen Psaki how he could serve as a better toady
• You can get those Fauci emails on your Kindle — for now

Bonus Sanity: Normal is the new normal.

CHINESE SPYWARE MASQUERADING AS A SOCIAL MEDIA APP: TikTok new privacy update allows collection of faceprint and voiceprints in the U.S.

BREAKING: Unanimous Supreme Court Upholds the Law Against Illegal Immigrants. “Kagan’s opinion represents a blunt refutation of [Liz Warren and the Biden Administration’s] sleight-of-hand attempt to undermine immigration law.”

ROUTINE BUT NEVER BORING: A SpaceX rocket launched, released a satellite, and landed perfectly overnight.

I’ve lost the exact count, but I believe that’s the 102nd consecutive successful Falcon 9 launch.

HEH: New Internal Report Dissects the 2020 Democratic Party Disaster But Learns the Wrong Lessons. “All they had to do was ask any Republican who didn’t live in New York or Los Angeles.”

WEIRD HOW THE ERRORS ALL GO IN BEIJING’S FAVOR: Microsoft says it blocked Tiananmen Square searches outside China due to ‘error.’

GOOD: Ashli Babbitt’s Family Sues D.C. Cops to Learn the Identity of Her Killer.

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: California Assault Weapons Ban Struck Down. “Good for both home and battle, the AR-15 is the kind of versatile gun that lies at the intersection of the kinds of firearms protected under District of Columbia v. Heller and United States v. Miller.”

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Must See TV — Speaker of the House Donald J.Trump. “There is precedent for this. John Quincy Adams spent 17 years in the House of Representatives after serving one term as president. Trump could probably win a seat rather easily. It would be endless fun watching him shake things up on Capitol Hill. The Never Trump surrender monkey Republicans would drown in tears.”

MANCHURIAN MEDIA? Time Magazine Takes Money From CCP Proxy-Promotes Drone Biz Surveilling Uyghurs.

BREATHING ROOM: Joe Manchin Just Crushed Two Democrat Power Grabs… for Now. “I believe that partisan voting legislation will destroy the already weakening binds of our democracy, and for that reason, I will vote against the For the People Act.”

WHAT AN AWFUL PLATFORM: Facebook Allows Anti-Semitic Comments, Cancels Pro-Israel Page.

SAY ANYTHING: Fauci defends emails saying masks don’t work: “I should have added a few more sentences.”

TRUMP: ‘Our Country Is Fortunate’ I Didn’t Do What Fauci Wanted Me to Do.

YES. NEXT QUESTION? Is Russia’s Su-57 the worst stealth fighter on the planet? “It’s not just with stealth and propulsion that the Su-57 continues to lag behind the competition. One of the aircraft’s selling points has also been its sensor suite and advanced avionics — with the Russian government claiming the fighter is capable of full 360-degree sensor coverage much like the flying supercomputer F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. To date, it does not appear that any such system is online in the Su-57, with the Rand Corporation analysis positing that sanctions placed on Russia after its military annexation of Crimean in 2014 have further hindered the system’s development.”

CORN, POPPED: New York Times Scrambles After Babylon Bee Sics Its Lawyers on Them.